Improvement in cultivators



A. GROHMANN.

` Cultivator. No. 88,084.` Patemed March 23, 1889.

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' I Letter-s Patent No. 88,934, dated March 23, 1869. A

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIV'ATORS.

The Schedule refen-e to in these lLetters Pate'nt and making part of the seme.

To whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, AN'rHoNY GROHMANN, of South Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have invented alnew and useful Improvern'ent in Scan'fiers, Oultivators, and Cutters combined; and I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the aocompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specifioation.

Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, opeued, or expanded. I

Figure 2 is aplan view of the same closed.

Like letters indioate like parts in each figure.

The nature of my invention consists in peculiar- -shaped cntters, attached to a garden-cultivator, which by means of plates E, to other side-beams,jF, whose rear ends are, in turn, pivoted to the plates G, which slide, one above and the other below the rear end of the centre-beam.

These plates G have suitable holes punched through them, corresponding to a series of similar holes through' the centre-beam, by means of which, and a suitable pin, the side-beams may be held in any desired position relative to the centre-beam.

To the under side of these beams are secured the steel teeth, or scarifiers H, made in the usual form, their upper surfaces being slightly concave.

These teeth, or scarifiers, are provided with iron shanks, I, by means of which the;7 are bolted to the before-desoribed beams, in such relative position to each other, that the point of one of the teeth .will be in line with the termination of the Wing of the tooth preceding it. i

Outters, J, are attached, by suitable bolts, to the side-beams O, in the rear of and in line with the termination of the Wings of the front teeth, and are designed for cutting the runners of vines.

This implement may be expanded to any desired Width, as shown in fig. 1, or closed until the side-beams are horizontal with the centre-beam, as shown in fig. 2.

The number of teeth' used should be governed by the distance the frame is expanded. The position of the teeth should be changed also, Which is readily done by loosening the nuts which hold them in place, changing the direction of the point as desired, and tightening the bolts again.

The cutters may be removed at any time'their services are not needed, and, by the construction of an implement as herein described, perfect adjustability to any desired Width can be obtained This device is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of gardens, for weeding-purposes.

What I'claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp The implement described, having the sickle-back cutters J, in combinat-ion with the adjustable beams O and F, and centre-beam A, as desoribed, for the pur pose set forth.

AN THON Y GROHMANN. Witnesses:

L. O. HYDE, OHARLES A. W. Rron. 

